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All five men ranked amongst the national statistical leaders in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision last season and all five have received a Preseason All-America distinction from STATS as the start of the 2018 campaign nears.

Two all-Northeast Conference football players received All-America plaudits from the Associated Press.

Duquesne senior guard Ben Huss, who has been a mainstay up front for what’s perennially been one of the league’s most high-powered offenses, earned a spot on the AP All-America Second Team.

Bryant junior linebacker Tom Costigan, the 2017 NEC Defensive Player of the Year, garnered Third Team All-America honors from the AP.

Neither athlete had received All-America honors from the AP prior to this season, but Huss was named a STATS FCS Third Team All-American as a junior in 2016.

Huss makes its three straight seasons during which a Duquesne Duke has made an AP All-America Team. Linebacker Christian Kuntz, a two-time NEC Defensive Player of the Year, earned second team status in both 2015 and 2016.

Costigan is the first Bryant Bulldog to snag an AP All-America selection since 2014 when lineman Jeff Covitz, the program’s all-time sacks leader, earned a spot on the Third Team Defense.

The Sports Network released its list of preseason hopefuls for the Buck Buchanan Award, and all-NEC linebacker Dorian Bell found himself amongst the elite defensive players in Division I FCS.

Days after being named one of the NEC’s three preseason All-Americans by the Sports Network, Bell was one of 20 FCS players to make the Buchanan Award Watch List.

Bell’s selection gives the NEC two major contenders for the top individual honors in FCS. Earlier this week, Bryant senior wide receiver Jordan Harris was one of 20 names on the prestigious Walter Payton Award watch list.